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• ELC Event Registration

  ELC 2021 

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• ELC 2021 Airline Discounts

  ELC 2021 Discounts To Atlanta, Georgia

  Travel Dates October 16 -26 2021

   

  Delta Air Lines is pleased to offer special discounts for ELC 2021

  You may also call Delta Meeting Network® at 1.800.328.1111* Monday–Friday, 7:00 a.m. – 7:30 p.m. (CT) and refer to Meeting Event Code NMUQD

  *Please note there is not a service fee for reservations booked and ticketed via our reservation 800 number.

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• ELC 2021 GRJ Forum Lecturer

  GRJ Forum Lecturer: Nicole Piemonte, PhD

  Title: Cultivating the Habits at the Heart of Patient Care: Compassion, Vulnerability, and Imagination

  

  Nicole Piemonte is the Assistant Dean for Student Affairs and a faculty member in the Department of Medical Humanities at Creighton University School of Medicine, Phoenix Regional Campus. She also holds the Peekie Nash Carpenter Endowed Chair in Medicine at Creighton University. Nicole received her PhD in Medical Humanities from The University of Texas Medical Branch where she studied continental philosophy, medical ethics, literature and medicine, and medical pedagogy. Her current teaching and research focus on incorporating the humanities into medical education in order to cultivate future physicians who are attuned to suffering, mortality, vulnerability, and social justice. Her first book, Afflicted: How Vulnerability Can Heal Medical Education and Practice, was published in January 2018 with The MIT Press, and her second book with The MIT Press, Death and Dying, will be released in September 2021.

   

  Ignite talks:

  • Chad Jackson, PT, DPT, EdD – Director, Professional Practice Education, University of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio TX
  • Natalie Weeks O’Neal, PT, DPT – Program Director, PTA program, Pima Medical Institute, Las Vegas, Nevada
  • Sarah Blanton, PT, DPT – faculty and Editor in Chief, J Humanities in Rehab, Emory university, Atlanta, GA

  Panelists:

  • Gail Jensen, PT, PhD, FAPTA, FNAP, Creighton University, Omaha, NE
  • Bruce Greenfield, PT, MPT, PhD, OCS, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
  • Steven Chesbro, PT, DPT, EdD, FNAP,  Vice President of Education, APTA

   

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